Re: Policy: Mail folder creation (Re: Debian mutt package)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:49:44PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Oscar Levi wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > > Thus, I'd suggest the mail spool file is created by the useradd or
> > > similar programs upon account creation. For robustness reasons,
> > > M_D_As such as procmail and deliver should be required to re-create
> > > it when it doesn't exist, and required MUA behaviour should be as I
> > > wrote above.
> [snip]
> >
> > What about making the adduser script create spool files?
>
> That is what was suggested?
That's a question?
I am suggesting that. It would circumvent the deceptive error message
that mutt emits. If we combine this with the stipulation that MUAs
cannot delete spool files we will have a consistent setup.
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